Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:31:54 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 31 Message-ID: <8vrlniFlo7U1@mid.individual.net> References: <0audnf54k6BKNwrQnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@earthlink.com> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cXP7AmTXN2fMCM4gb/hgcAw9yKX0wmCvpJHCC/zLd3/9JKLOpC Cancel-Lock: sha1:tiY+W6xPFxtxExI2rA4NB0K62MQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2807 On 03/04/2011 01:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message<0audnf54k6BKNwrQnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@earthlink.com>, Patricia > Shanahan wrote: > >> On 4/2/2011 3:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> I remember the last interesting things I heard coming out of Xerox PARC >>> was their idea of “boards”, “pads” and “tabs”, which were three different >>> sizes of wirelessly-networked keyboardless computers. All user data lived >>> in the cloud, so you could go into any office, pick up any one of these >>> devices, and have all your own data immediately to hand. >> >> I think the trend is in that direction. > > Can be a two-edged sword. There have been some high-profile failures of > cloud services. > > I don’t think the PARC researchers envisioned that these mobile devices > would have gigabytes of storage on them—enough to do a lot without reference > to any cloud. When I first started work 2GB of storage took up a whole building of one of the biggest computer time sharing companies in the UK - Comshare: http://www.answers.com/topic/comshare-inc They have done well to survive -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology